The Two Giants of Turkey

June 14, 2024

Istanbul and Cappadocia. One a buzzing multicultural city, the other hard to pinpoint on a map but, known for its iconic moonlike landscapes. Each amazing in their own right and also great combined into a perfect week’s holiday.

My trip started in Istanbul, which is easily one of my favourite cities in the world. The Bosphorus Strait separates Asia from Europe within the city itself, but this is not a division, it is where East meets West and there are few places on earth where so many cultural contrasts live in such unison.

Hiking the Himalayas

May 10, 2024

The scene is hypnotic with rhododendron trees in early bloom, their vibrant red flowers contrasting against the snow-capped Himalayan peaks, whilst neon green terraces dotted with tiny villages cascade down vertigo inducing valleys.

Madagascar - A land of lemurs, landscapes and long roads

April 12, 2024

Ask someone to pin Madagascar on a map and there’s a slim chance they’ll manage to locate it. But, lying some 400km off the east coast of Africa, it is the Indian Ocean’s largest island. Having broken free from the Continent many millions of years ago, it evolved in its own individual way and is one of the most biodiverse countries with, astonishingly, around 80% of its flora and fauna (of which there are around 250,000 species) found nowhere else on earth.

On the Road in Southern Patagonia

March 8, 2024

Patagonia is known to be where the world ends. Or is it where the world starts mused my guide, Dennis, as we sat sheltering from the rain and the 100mph wind that had whipped up as we hiked up Cerro Paine in Chile’s famed Torres del Paine National Park.

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